ReinXeed — Welcome To The Theater (2012)



I've actually liked some of the previous Reinxeed albums I've heard, but with "Welcome To The Theater" Tommy Reinxeed and his band is really testing me. I'm afraid I'm failing the test, as this album is just TOO MUCH. Apparently these songs were influenced by movies, and by listening to it those movies must have been nothing but BIG spectacles. You can imagine huge armies with swords in the air, dragons flying above and giants stomping around...

Just about each one of the songs on the album is ultra-fast and heavily orchestrated. The use of the orchestration can only be compared to that of Nightwish, but somehow Reinxeed's way of doing it is much more overbearing. I guess I could've dealt with it if there had been some remarkably great melodies in the songs, but no... Somehow I feel that Tommy has lost his touch or become obsessed in making everything bigger than everything else. Okay, "Somewhere In Time" and title track and couple of others have traces of what I liked in Reinxeed's music, but otherwise, this is a case of "not enough cake, too much icing".

1. Welcome (1:12)
2. Life will find a way (5:37)
3. Follow Me (3:52)
4. Save Us (5:55)
5. Stranger Tides (5:30)
6. Somewhere in time (6:16)
7. Freedom (8:15)
8. No Fate (6:50)
9. Temple of the crystal sculls (4:35)
10. Welcome to the theater (3:46)



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